Friday: Quilt Show and ant update

Today Liz and I went to the quilt show!  It was fun to see all the quilts, but especially the one in the top center...it's mine. :)  I decided to enter it because I figured they worst they could say is no.  And it isn't an officially judged show, so the quilt didn't have to be perfect.

The boys did well with the quilts and at the subsequent fabric store.  

And I only saw one ant today!  I moved most of the traps away from the sink, although I am going to leave one there a few more days in case there are any stragglers.  Hooray, I think I got them!

Thursday: swimming lessons

We had our swimming lesson again today!  Isaac was still pretty calm about all of it, although I think he got cold a little sooner.  I told him he should kick and use his arms, but he ignored me.  We take a warm shower afterwards, but it still seems to take him a while to warm up.

The whole process also seems to make him so tired!  We had an errand to run again and he slept on my shoulder the whole time (ok, about 5 minutes).  But still...I got him out of the car seat and it was a little noisy.  We'll have to make sure to continue swimming once lessons are done so that I continue to get good naps!

Wednesday: Isaac

Isaac has a new word today! His list of words he can now say includes "mamama" and "dadada", although those two I usually can't get him to say on command. Then came "quack quack" followed by "woof woof". Today we got "baa baa". Guess he likes his critters.

We all went to play disc golf when Ben got out of work. There were three discs, so Isaac caddied for us. He took the job very seriously...when we took away his disc at the end he burst out crying.

Tuesday: Today! (again)

Here are a few things from today...

Isaac trying to play with Flurry.  It didn't work very well.

Isaac has some tea bags that he gets to play with, and they were all over the floor today.  He also got to go barefoot.  This meant that the tea bags often were sticking to the bottoms of this feet (yes, it was rather funny).  Once he bent over to try and get one off, tumbled forward, and started crying.  He kept crying, so I said, "Maybe you need some M&Ms as get better pills."  The crying instantly stopped.

We went downtown to eat vendor food with the family.  It was nice to see everyone.

Monday: Today!

To start with, Isaac is definetly enjoying being able to open the closet door.  He spent quite a bit of time opening the door, taking out one shoe, closing the door, and bringing the shoe...somewhere.  Happily, this entertained him for quite a while.  Sadly, shoes are now all over the house.

I had a dentist appointment today.  It went fine.  Isaac was awesome and quietly played with his pig for forty-five minutes.  They put a stain on my teeth to show me where I wasn't brushing well.  I have one tooth that I manage to miss a lot...I found it very interesting.

Then we got to have lunch with Ben!  Whoo-hoo!

Oh, I wanted to give you an update on the Roomba and the ants.  The Roomba is working well.  I think we are past the initial cleaning by now and it is still picking up a lot of dirt.  Not a ton, but a lot.  The ant population has been relegated to "small".  While still unacceptable (I'm going for "none"), it is nice to not see a steady stream of ants going up my counter wall.  They seem to be most active in the afternoon.  I often get my hopes up in the morning when I only see one or two, but by the afternoon there are many more.  I have three of the preferred traps sitting out.  There is bait in all three, but they only seem to prefer one each day.  I thought it would be split more evenly (they're not very far apart) but I'm sure there is a method to their madness.

Sunday: sleep

We put Isaac to bed early tonight because he seemed really tired.  He went right to sleep, but I always feel a little guilty when we put him to bed early.  I'm not really sure why.  I mean, I usually get tired plus or minus an hour of my normal bedtime, so why shouldn't he?

Saturday: outside

Today was a beautiful day outside.

This morning I brought Isaac outside.  I was going to try and move some sod pieces, but Isaac wasn't having any of that.  Apparently I was too far away and he doesn't like walking on the grass.  So we did some weeding of the front area.

After Ben woke up I went back outside to do the sod.  Luckily, the neighbor that is pulling up the sod was also out there and he had a wheelbarrow.  Two people and a wheelbarrow made it go much more quickly.  He did a lot more after I was done, but I at least helped him with everything that he had already taken out.

This afternoon I got a little mulch to put down where we weeded in the morning.  It's kind of sad how a ton of mulch doesn't really go very far.  I knew it was going to be bad, but I was hoping it would be a little better.  Oh well.  One section down, several more to go.  It'll probably be an all summer project.  But hopefully it will help with the weeds.

Then this evening we brought the grill back out to the deck.  We bring it through the house, and so move all the furniture out of the way.  This excited Isaac to no end.  Moving the grill was significantly more fun this time because Isaac was so excited about it.